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Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, Frances and her best friends go to a fortune-teller who predicts Frances' murder, causing her to start tracking friends and enemies alike. Decades later, Annie Adams has arrived from London to meet Great-Aunt Frances at her vast country estate near the village of Castle Knoll as she's just replaced Annie's mom as an heir to a family fortune. But someone has murdered Frances, and now Annie will have to sort through all of Frances' files in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
James Trotter loses his parents in a horrible accident and is forced to live-miserably-with his two wicked aunts. Then James is given some magic crystals that give him hope. But when he accidentally spills these crystals on an old peach tree, strange things begin to happen. A peach starts to grow and grow until James is able to climb inside and escape his awful aunts! And through this adventure, he makes some interesting friends, including Grasshopper,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While helping take care of his great-aunt's rose bush, young Douglas learns about family members who have done the same, starting with his great-great-grandfather, and comes to see how each is still part of that bush.
5) Housekeeping
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruth, a young girl struggling to overcome haunting family memories in a town which will not let her forget, gradually grows close to Sylvie, the sister of her dead mother.
6) Not my dog
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.
Author
Series
Cobble Street cousins volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Rosie, Lily, and Tess, three cousins who are living together with their aunt, decide to make a miniature flower shop just like Aunt Lucy's real shop, and give it to her as a gift.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One girl’s all-too-recognizable experience—a visit from a troupe of overwhelming and overly enthusiastic relations—escalates to new heights of chaos, absurdity, and delight in a laugh-out-loud take on family reunions. Written with signature humor by Adam Rex and illustrated by Lian Cho, this picture book is a celebration of the universal and endearing strangeness of family.
10) Goodnight June
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby's estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children's bookstore Ruby founded in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her family's past, and the hushed-over crime passionnel of an aunt...
15) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell....
16) Lanie
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Lanie Holland loves science and nature, and so she wants to go camping and have adventures in the wilderness, while her family wants to stay home, but Lanie finds someone else who loves the outdoors when her Aunt Hannah visits.
17) Double identity
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mel is a local politician from a political family. When a family scandal leaves her niece, Lennox, and nephew, Ryder, without their parents, Mel takes them in. Meanwhile, Joe is a former commodities trader left bankrupt after a Ponzi scheme who is searching for a job. So when Mel finds it hard to handle an instant family and her own life, she hires Joe to become the family's new male nanny, or 'manny.' Includes the final eighteen episodes of the first...
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